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Except that Level 7 at SJP is already higher and further back than any of the stands at those grounds. To put a Level 8 tier on SJP would be ridiculous and crossing the line over what is an acceptable view of the pitch. I don't think people sometimes appreciate how far away you are when at the back of Level 7. To go even further back would be preposterous.

Unless they have solely bought the land to use as a fan zone (highly unlikely IMO) then this looks like ending the debate of expanding/moving for a good while now.

An even bigger/higher stand than the current Level 7 would be ridiculous. The views at the back would be hideous and you might as well just watch the game at home. I'm not a fan of having mismatched stands either, it just looks lopsided and messy.

Still not ruling this out over the long term. It all depends on how successful and/or powerful the club becomes.

Really? So the Milburn Level 7 holds 10,000? I find that hard to believe.

Yeah, the existing Level 7 development added 16000 seats and the section behind the Leazes & the Leazes corner represents about half of those 16,000 seats. So looking like being bang on 60K capacity with this one piece of expansion.

Rename the redeveloped Gallowgate the "Fuck You Mike Ashley Stand", please.

Absolutely bowled over by this news. Yet another fantastic thing that these amazing owners have fixed. The next thing that simply has to happen is the existing Gallowgate being turned into a safe standing Kop end, once the inevitable Level 7 extension happens. And I actually have every faith that the club will deliver on that too, so long as the Trust get involved and make sure they know about it. It will be a bit of a headache moving fans around but it will absolutely be worth it in the long term.

They will likely get a punishment that curtails them for 18 months to 2 years. So probably a full season ban from all cup competitions, a 15 to 20 point deduction for a season and a transfer embago for 18 months. The idea though that they will get relegated or have trophies taken off them is a complete fantasy. They are currently the established number 1 elite club in the country and are not going anywhere, but the punishment will allow the other clubs....like us....to close the gap on them. It's a win-win for the PL as it will show them as being tough but also make the league even more competitive.

I'm delighted with this news, I have to say. Not because of any dislike of City, but because it will now shut up all of the already entitled clowns who are emerging in our support, whining because we haven't spent £250m in every transfer window so far. I always had a feeling we would not become "the next Man City" and this confirms it. And it's great news too because it would have become boring very, very quickly. We will definitely still have a lot of advantages through PIF's connections to other companies but we won't be able to cook the books like City seem to have done.

Aye, I chortled at it too.

On RAWK I've seen them calling us "Death Star FC" and Eddie is "Grand Moff Howe".

Definitely agree with this. The safe standing area of SJP needs to be the Gallowgate. Having a singing section should be as much about being a visual spectacle as an aural one. Having fans hidden away in the Gods won't help the atmosphere anywhere near as much as having a visual "Kop" end behind the goal.

On Red Cafe over recent times, when they have been in Liverpool's shadow, they have been quite humble but now that they can smell success again the arrogance & entitlement is quickly coming back.

We didn't lay a glove on either of them in the two finals. I'd hope that in this one we at least make the opposition get out of 2nd gear.

Not only that, but on the Glazer thread on Red Cafe they are literally begging to be bought by an oil state.

Trying to wangle a ticket. If not, will be somewhere in the Bigg Market, smashing up phone boxes.

Can be seen from Sheriff Hill in Gateshead which is probably a couple of miles away. And when travelling back into town on the Coast Road you can see it at about the point when passing Silverlink. That's at least 2 miles too.

Yeah that definitely rings a bell. Something of a stand off between the two sets of fans if I remember right. Just as well that the road that separated the two bars was busy.

Yeah that rings a bell.